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Dance - Trentino Music Festival

Join us!!!
Newly established Dance Studio at the Trentino Music Festival this Summer.

Stephen Pier is directing this new Summer Program!!!
César Faria Fernandez from NDT and I will join him there.
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César and Stephen will be choreographing new works and I will be setting a Graham work,
all to be presented with live orchestra.
Ballet, Contemporary, and classical Modern.
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ALL VIDEO AUDITIONS DUE: May 31, 2024

今年から始まる夏のダンスプログラムです。3週間、作品作りに関わり、最後にはオーケストラとの共演をします。
作品は新作が二つとグラハムの作品です。詳しくは直接私にメールをいただければと思います。 
メール先はこちらです。



# by miki3lotus | 2024-02-14 07:18 | Dance

Dance - Trentino Music Festival

Join us!!!
Newly established Dance Studio at the Trentino Music Festival this Summer.

Stephen Pier is directing this new Summer Program!!!
César Faria Fernandez from NDT and I will join him there.
Dance - Trentino Music Festival_b0069951_06505119.png
César and Stephen will be choreographing new works and I will be setting a Graham work,
all to be presented with live orchestra.
Ballet, Contemporary, and classical Modern.
Dance - Trentino Music Festival_b0069951_06510254.png























ALL VIDEO AUDITIONS DUE: May 31, 2024

今年から始まる夏のダンスプログラムです。3週間、作品作りに関わり、最後にはオーケストラとの共演をします。作品は新作が二つとグラハムの作品です。詳しくは直接私にメールをいただければと思います。 
メール先はこちらです。



# by miki3lotus | 2024-02-14 07:12 | Dance

Spring Repertory Workshop at the Hartt School Dance

Happy New Year!!!

I posted on Jan.1, 2024 this year! I will try to post more regularly this year is my goal this year!!!

So at the Hartt School, first 2 weeks of January is usually Winter break, but selected dancers are back working with 2 choreographers. This year, these wonderful artists are here with them. Tamisha Guy and Robert De La Cruz III.

Choreographers came to the school, gave auditions, Freshman class to Senior class - all of them took this audition, casted them. Just like any other companies. Selected dancers come back right after Christmas, to attend this Spring Repertory Workshop. You will take warm up class- usually ballet. then rehearsal starts. 6 hours of rehearsal to create new works. This is how "you" as a professional dancer will experience when you start working with the company. No academic study but DANCE, practically DANCE ALL DAY. You will learn how to take care of yourself - over all area. Food, Body, Mind... yes Mind! you have to remember all new movements and counts and patterns and, and...

A native of Trinidad and Tobago, began her formal dance
training at Ballet Tech, under the direction of Eliot Feld. Later she
attended Fiorello H. La Guardia High School, and SUNY Purchase
College as a double major in dance and arts management.
In 2013 Guy graduated with honors from SUNY Purchase College
and joined the Martha Graham Dance Company shortly after.

In 2016 Guy was selected as one of Dance Magazine' Top 25 to
Watch and she also received the 2016 Princess Grace Award.
In 2017, she was named one of the Best Dancer's of the Year by
Dance Europe. In 2021, she received the 2022 Vilcek Prize for
Creative Promise in Dance. Tamisha currently dances with A.I.M,
under Artistic Director Kyle Abraham, which she joined in 2014.

Born in the Philippines and raised in Los Angeles, California,
Norbert De La Cruz III is recognized for his versatility in performance and choreography. His movement practice is shaped by his
training experiences from the Gabriella Foundation, LA County High
School for the Arts, Marat Daukayev School of Ballet, received a B.F.A. in Dance from the Juilliard School followed by and M..F.A. in
dance from Hollins University.

Professional, Robert has performed as a soloist with the
Metropolitan Opera's production of Aida, Aszure Barton & Artists
in Germany & Australia(Blue Soup & Busk), Balletto Teatro di
Torino(Italy), Joe Goode Performance Group, Sydney Skybetter &
Associates, Santa Clarita Ballet, Lustig Dance Theatre, Boca Tuya,
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet and Complexions Contemporary Ballet.


This is just an introduction so please visit their website!!!

So
They are creating!!! Norbert is creating a beautiful Contemporary Ballet on point, and Tamisha Contemporary Dance. Their movements are so interesting!!! Their use of weight, arms, backs..... ONLY IF I WERE YOUNG DANCER...
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I didn't take any pictures during work, but after open rehearsal,
2 choreographers spent a little time with guests. Many questions
from guests, and Norbert and Tamisha's response was great!!!




Dancers wanted to know too. So we had a lunch with
choreographers.



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Dancers had questions. Senior dancers, off course are curious
about HOW, What, and so on. It was nice to hear dancers'
interests and their responses.

BE KIND

Both of them, expressed, as a human, you need to be kind.
Kindness is something we forget when you are in hard time, or just forget in any time. You can not try to be nice/kind but you need to practice KIND BEING. so that it will penetrating.

Both of them, as I watched the rehearsals, never raise their voices, give dancers time to digest/respond and give them some room to experience.
Beside beautiful movements, it is great to watch them work.

Norbert has to leave so I took this picture! Everybody's face describe their happiness and appreciation!!!
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AND I am working on two big projects. One is Martha Graham Dance Technique Level 3 and the other is creating "Suite of Dances - From Canticle for Innocent Comedians". The work Martha created in 1952, "Canticle for Innocent Comedians", the company revived in 1960's and then 1987, my first year with the company. Yuriko put this work together. She invited some of dancers who danced this work, brought them to the studio, taught us what they did, and remembered. It was a beautiful experience with many dancers that you admired and saw on video. I danced Chorus who danced interludes to 8 elements. and Also I got to dance a section called "Stars". I danced with Mario Camacho who now teaches in Holland.

I am very anxious and excited about this work. I am working with 2 composers Kathryn Swanson and Lief Ellis. I remember this beautiful chorus/group dances. Sometimes I teach this group sections for repertory classes. Once I put shorter version together, and it was about 10 mins of dancing. If you are interested to see it, please let me know!!!

Oh well, I am now off to observe Tamisha's rehearsal.
Have a wonderful day everybody!!!



# by miki3lotus | 2024-01-13 02:09 | Dance

Happy New Year! 2024

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! 2024!!!



Miki and Stephen in 2023


It was an active year to say the least! Here are a few of the highlights, only to give you a starting point for a real live, person to person, exchange should the new year provide such a luxury. We would embrace it (and you) warmly and eagerly!

Happy New Year! 2024_b0069951_09341809.jpeg
Top L: Berlin, Top R:NAC, Mid L: with Diana,
Mid R: Graham Gala, Bot L: Graduation, and Garden Apples

January found us in Berlin, ringing in 2023 with friends and former colleagues while I was at work with her Berlin-based "Dance On Ensemble". As soon as I was back in NYC I went to work presenting the story of her life in dance at the National Arts Club in NYC. MY fan club of younger generation Graham dancers was in attendance and all were enthralled! In March I then went to work coaching the internationally celebrated ballet star, Diana Vishneva, in Graham's "Deep Song". I then set and coached a group of our Hartt students who we brought to The Joyce Theater to perform "Primitive Mysteries" with the Graham Company's NY season. May brought the graduation and immediate professional placement of another amazing group of Hartt Dance seniors and in June, our community garden apple tree was produced its most robust crop in years allowing me to give bushels of this deliciousness to the neighborhood and Hell's Kitchen passersby.

Happy New Year! 2024_b0069951_09341859.jpeg
Throughout the year our lives were enriched by many friends of all ages, from 2 weeks to 9 decades! I was able to have a wonderful visit with SP's first major dance mentor/teacher, Betty Toman, just before she passed at 98. Her presence in SP's life made all that he has done in the field of Dance possible. It is not an overstatement to say that Betty changed his life. We are so very grateful for all we get to learn from all of them, young and old, and how our lives and relationships continue to grow and develop in the most rewarding ways.

Happy New Year! 2024_b0069951_09341881.jpeg
Speaking of relationships, SP's summer was spent mostly in Europe starting with the celebration of 50 years of John Neumeier's Hamburg Ballet. 250 dancers attended! His 9 years there was a significant chapter in his life, and it was terrific to catch up with friends and colleagues and even have the chance to sit and talk with John a bit. From there he was off to London to teach for Rambert Ballet and reconstitute an urban garden in the center of London. Then, Copenhagen to visit with friends, reconnecting with another of his former hometowns. A trip to Sweden brought him close to a dear friend and allowed him to create a rose trellis from hand split cedar as his gift. He headed down to Amsterdam next to teach and introduce another cohort of Hartt Dancers to the wonders of that fantastic city and the International Festival of Contemporary Dance. All this while I was in Japan twice dancing the work of Akiko Kanda and the work of my mentor, Nanako, at her memorial.

Happy New Year! 2024_b0069951_09341872.jpeg
Our fall semester at Hartt has started extraordinarily well with a fantastic group of dancers and faculty. I was pushing her group further forward than I have ever done before. SP's seniors decided to all dress like him for Halloween, including bald heads! We took a group to Lincoln Center to see the Paul Taylor Company and three Hartt alumni in the company came out between shows to talk with the students. It gave a powerful message of continuity and possibility. SP thoroughly enjoyed choreographing for and directing our fall concert. Bournonville, Limón, and three new works were on the program and while it seems hard to believe, the program seems to continue to proceed from strength to strength. We were named among the 20 "Best College Dance Programs" by DanceUS for the 5th year in a row! We got to celebrate on the island of Tenerife where I had been performing and SP got to join me. That was a true Thanksgiving! Incredible climate, views, history, and FOOD!page5image4782512

We are looking forward to an exciting 2024 and we hope that it brings us all a little closer together. We will keep you informed so please know we'd love to meet up with you!

Much love and gratitude with all our best wishes for the year ahead!


SP and me~~~


# by miki3lotus | 2024-01-01 09:51 | 日常

Happy New Year! 2024

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! 2024!!!



Miki and Stephen in 2023


It was an active year to say the least! Here are a few of the highlights, only to give you a starting point for a real live, person to person, exchange should the new year provide such a luxury. We would embrace it (and you) warmly and eagerly!

Happy New Year! 2024_b0069951_09341809.jpeg
Top L: Berlin, Top R:NAC, Mid L: with Diana,
Mid R: Graham Gala, Bot L: Graduation, and Garden Apples

January found us in Berlin, ringing in 2023 with friends and former colleagues while I was at work with her Berlin-based "Dance On Ensemble". As soon as I was back in NYC I went to work presenting the story of her life in dance at the National Arts Club in NYC. MY fan club of younger generation Graham dancers was in attendance and all were enthralled! In March I then went to work coaching the internationally celebrated ballet star, Diana Vishneva, in Graham's "Deep Song". I then set and coached a group of our Hartt students who we brought to The Joyce Theater to perform "Primitive Mysteries" with the Graham Company's NY season. May brought the graduation and immediate professional placement of another amazing group of Hartt Dance seniors and in June, our community garden apple tree was produced its most robust crop in years allowing me to give bushels of this deliciousness to the neighborhood and Hell's Kitchen passersby.

Happy New Year! 2024_b0069951_09341859.jpeg
Throughout the year our lives were enriched by many friends of all ages, from 2 weeks to 9 decades! I was able to have a wonderful visit with SP's first major dance mentor/teacher, Betty Toman, just before she passed at 98. Her presence in SP's life made all that he has done in the field of Dance possible. It is not an overstatement to say that Betty changed his life. We are so very grateful for all we get to learn from all of them, young and old, and how our lives and relationships continue to grow and develop in the most rewarding ways.

Happy New Year! 2024_b0069951_09341881.jpeg
Speaking of relationships, SP's summer was spent mostly in Europe starting with the celebration of 50 years of John Neumeier's Hamburg Ballet. 250 dancers attended! His 9 years there was a significant chapter in his life, and it was terrific to catch up with friends and colleagues and even have the chance to sit and talk with John a bit. From there he was off to London to teach for Rambert Ballet and reconstitute an urban garden in the center of London. Then, Copenhagen to visit with friends, reconnecting with another of his former hometowns. A trip to Sweden brought him close to a dear friend and allowed him to create a rose trellis from hand split cedar as his gift. He headed down to Amsterdam next to teach and introduce another cohort of Hartt Dancers to the wonders of that fantastic city and the International Festival of Contemporary Dance. All this while I was in Japan twice dancing the work of Akiko Kanda and the work of my mentor, Nanako, at her memorial.

Happy New Year! 2024_b0069951_09341872.jpeg
Our fall semester at Hartt has started extraordinarily well with a fantastic group of dancers and faculty. I was pushing her group further forward than I have ever done before. SP's seniors decided to all dress like him for Halloween, including bald heads! We took a group to Lincoln Center to see the Paul Taylor Company and three Hartt alumni in the company came out between shows to talk with the students. It gave a powerful message of continuity and possibility. SP thoroughly enjoyed choreographing for and directing our fall concert. Bournonville, Limón, and three new works were on the program and while it seems hard to believe, the program seems to continue to proceed from strength to strength. We were named among the 20 "Best College Dance Programs" by DanceUS for the 5th year in a row! We got to celebrate on the island of Tenerife where I had been performing and SP got to join me. That was a true Thanksgiving! Incredible climate, views, history, and FOOD!page5image4782512

We are looking forward to an exciting 2024 and we hope that it brings us all a little closer together. We will keep you informed so please know we'd love to meet up with you!

Much love and gratitude with all our best wishes for the year ahead!


SP and me~~~


# by miki3lotus | 2024-01-01 09:51 | 日常